Sunday, May 22, 2022

POWER IS IN THE VOICE

 


In the captain’s seat, they sat.

The ship twists and turns,

Rocks hit our foreheads,

And tatters our feet to work rides.

Still, they pour champagne.

Laugh and pour champagne.

Silenced mind of the masses, their roll-the-drum

Yet the other cheek salutes the air.

In a toothless tirade

As “Lame is the ship’s state”,

“Enthusiastic was its slaughtered skin.”

“They know ‘no’,”

The lame shouts at the wall

The wealthy state, wealthy underfoot,

Come beggar

Among nations of made-in, be right.

Yet bowl in hand, it dances.

With the lowest of low

The voice for change cowered

Yet death is the health house.

Across the sea, meet the health house.

We know they know ‘no’

Adrift we flow for five tens and two.

In the journey to the same, same place

Same place,

Of a zero library, of endless cry

Yet to topple the inane power.

The power is in the voice.

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